Alain Locke
Biographic Data
| ID | 226157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Locke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Locke |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2759-0579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mothers discourses on baby monitors: A discursive analysis of mumsnet posts on surveillance and risk management
Despite recommendations against using commercial sleep monitoring devices to prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), their use is increasing among parents. This study explores mothers' discursive constructions about the usage of baby monitors during their infants' sleep. By analysing 43 online posts from the website Mumsnet through Critical Discursive Psychology, two key discourses were identified: 'surveillance as a good mothering practice'…
Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy
Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate about a controversial refugee policy in the UK co…
New directions for the Journal of Health Psychology
This editorial reflects on the current and future directions of the Journal of Health Psychology. As the Co-Editors in Chief, we briefly outline our positionality and the importance of our Editorial Board and other peer reviewers in ensuring the rigour of accepted articles. We comment on the middle-ground that has to be struck when considering the scope of open science given that data sharing has to be tempered by ethical and methodological consi…
Putting the 'teachable moment' in context: A view from critical health psychology
The concept of 'Teachable Moment' (TM) is an increasingly used term within mainstream health psychology in relation to interventions and health behaviour change. It refers to a naturally occurring health event where individuals may be motivated to change their behaviours from unhealthy ones to healthier choices. Pregnancy is seen as a key time for behaviour change interventions, partly due to the idea that the mother has increased motivations to …
Mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts
Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother’s Day from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected fro…
Digital families: Gendered relationships in online spaces
This Special Issue sets out to consider gendered family relationships in digital spaces.These spaces, including social media, digital media, streaming services, and web pages, have increased access to family-focused content online.Drawing on critical feminist psychological perspectives that question the prioritisation of essentialist and normative conceptualisations of family and gender, this special issue examines the phenomenon of digital mothe…
A Note on African Art (1924)
African Art: Classic Style (1935)
Empowering women through the positive birth movement
Childbirth has been positioned as a life changing event that has profound long term psychological effects upon women. This paper adopts a community psychology approach to explore the role that the Positive Birth Movement (PBM may have in tackling negative birth experiences by supporting women before and after birth. Six women who all regularly attend UK based Positive Birth Movement meetings and had given birth to at least one child participated …
‘You shut up and go along with it’: An interpretative phenomenological study of former professional footballers’ experiences of addiction
Research evidence suggests that professional players across a variety of sports may be at greater risk of developing addictions and other mental illnesses than the general population, both during and post-career. In this paper, we report findings from a larger project on the experiences of career transition in UK professional footballers that provide some insight into this. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological approach, four ex-professional f…
Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism
Yes
Regendering care or undoing gendered binaries of parenting in contemporary UK society
Boyer, Dermott, James and MacLeavy discuss the rise of fathers in primary caregiving positions within the United Kingdom following the recessions from 2008 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012 and outline a number of key questions. In this commentary, I consider the aims of their piece, both within contemporary parenting culture and the negotiation of gendered binaries of care. I note that a more intersectional understanding of the decisions that families ar…
Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and 'work: Critical Discursive Psychology and the 'Missing Voices' of Involved Fatherhood
This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the paper sets out to understand the complexities of involved fatherhood. Using data from two distinct research projects that considered managing tensions around parenting and paid work, alongside the mov…
For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK
Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role choice plays in the timing of motherhood among women who have been defined as “older” mothers. This article is based on data from 11 semi-structured interviews that explored the transition to motherhoo…
Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom
This study explored the perspectives of Black men, originally from East Africa, living in the United Kingdom and their partners on what it means to live with diagnosed HIV. This article reports on concealment of HIV-positive status as a strategy adopted by the affected participants to manage the flow of information about their HIV-positive status. Analysis of the data, collected using in-depth interviews involving 23 participants, found widesprea…
Work, parenting and gender: The care-work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK
Changes globally mean that there are now record numbers of mothers in paid employment and a reported prevalence of involved fathering. This poses challenges to mothers and fathers as they negotiate care–work practices within their relationships. Focusing on interviews with three heterosexual couples (taken from a wider UK qualitative project on working parents), the paper considers care–work negotiations of three couples, against a backdrop of de…
Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press
‘We thought if it’s going to take two years then we need to start that now’: Age, infertility risk and the timing of pregnancy in older first-time mothers
Over the past few decades, the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in most developed societies has steadily increased. Concerns have been raised over this trend amidst warnings of both the increased risk of fertility problems and health risks to mother and child. Despite this, research into the timing of pregnancy in the context of decreasing fertility has been somewhat neglected, with research typically framed in biomedi…
Masculinities, care and equality: Identity and Nurture in Men's Lives
"Masculinities, care and equality: identity and nurture in men's lives." Journal of Gender Studies, 22(4), pp. 455–456
‘You don’t know what’s around the corner’: A qualitative study of professional footballers in England facing career transition
Career transition in sport is a rapidly growing area within the field of sport psychology. Interest in this area has been fuelled by the need for an increased number of professional athletes seeking support and assistance during transition from sport. However, whilst research in this field has focused in on a wide range of sports, specific research on retirement in professional football has been limited. Because of this it is argued that current …
Qualitative research in sports and exercise psychology: A timely comment
Risky Business”: Constructing the “choice” to “delay” motherhood in the British press
Over the last few decades the number of women becoming pregnant later on in life has markedly increased. Medical experts have raised concerns about the increase in the number of women having babies later, owing to evidence that suggests that advancing maternal age is associated with both a decline in fertility and an increase in health risks to both mother and baby. In recognition of these risks, experts have warned that women should aim to have …
It all boils down to respect doesn't it?’: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner‐city area
Audio recordings of meetings of two community groups in a deprived inner‐city area were analysed, using discursive psychological and conversation analytic techniques to explore situated enactments of ‘community’. Participants situated themselves as members of a geographical community, of an ‘imagined’ community and of other constitutive communities. A sense of community was enacted through five interactional strategies: Affirming moral codes, ‘de…
Retracted ‘But you might be damaging your baby’: Constructing choice and risk in labour and childbirth
RETRACTED
Constructing Crime, Enacting Morality: Emotion, Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour in an Inner-City Community
Research into emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour has lacked psychological input and rarely considered the multi-directional associations between emotion, crime and morality. We present a study analysing audio recordings of two community groups meeting in a deprived inner-city area with high rates of crime, using conversation analytic and discursive psychological techniques to conduct an affective–textual analysis that draws out aspects of p…
Trying similarity, doing difference: The Role of Interviewer Self-Disclosure in Interview Talk With Young People
Advocates of semi-structured interview techniques have often argued that rapport may be built, and power inequalities between interviewer and respondent counteracted, by strategic self-disclosure on the part of the interviewer. Strategies that use self-disclosure to construct similarity between interviewer and respondent rely on the presumption that the respondent will in fact interpret the interviewer's behaviour in this way. In this article we …
Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and 'work: Critical Discursive Psychology and the 'Missing Voices' of Involved Fatherhood
This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the paper sets out to understand the complexities of involved fatherhood. Using data from two distinct research projects that considered managing tensions around parenting and paid work, alongside the mov…
Risky Business”: Constructing the “choice” to “delay” motherhood in the British press
Over the last few decades the number of women becoming pregnant later on in life has markedly increased. Medical experts have raised concerns about the increase in the number of women having babies later, owing to evidence that suggests that advancing maternal age is associated with both a decline in fertility and an increase in health risks to both mother and baby. In recognition of these risks, experts have warned that women should aim to have …
Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism
Yes
For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK
Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role choice plays in the timing of motherhood among women who have been defined as “older” mothers. This article is based on data from 11 semi-structured interviews that explored the transition to motherhoo…
Natural versus Taught: Competing Discourses in Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops
This article is an analysis of talk in breastfeeding workshops that are part of National Childbirth Trust antenatal classes. Using audio-recordings from breastfeeding workshops antenatal classes, the data were analysed using a qualitative, discursive methodology based in part on the premises outlined by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and Edwards and Potter (1992, 2001). The analysis demonstrates how there are two main discourses of breastfeeding con…
Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press
Social networking technology: Place and identity in mediated communities
This paper explores the rise of social networking technology as instances of mediated communities. A dialectic between collectivity and place, resulting in the grounding of a shared sense of the past in a particular place, is at the base of all communities. In this sense, community is, by its very definition, inherently ‘mediated’. We reformulate the notion of a ‘virtual community’ to examine the particular modalities of mediation across interact…
Work, parenting and gender: The care-work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK
Changes globally mean that there are now record numbers of mothers in paid employment and a reported prevalence of involved fathering. This poses challenges to mothers and fathers as they negotiate care–work practices within their relationships. Focusing on interviews with three heterosexual couples (taken from a wider UK qualitative project on working parents), the paper considers care–work negotiations of three couples, against a backdrop of de…
Retracted ‘But you might be damaging your baby’: Constructing choice and risk in labour and childbirth
RETRACTED
Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom
This study explored the perspectives of Black men, originally from East Africa, living in the United Kingdom and their partners on what it means to live with diagnosed HIV. This article reports on concealment of HIV-positive status as a strategy adopted by the affected participants to manage the flow of information about their HIV-positive status. Analysis of the data, collected using in-depth interviews involving 23 participants, found widesprea…
It all boils down to respect doesn't it?’: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner‐city area
Audio recordings of meetings of two community groups in a deprived inner‐city area were analysed, using discursive psychological and conversation analytic techniques to explore situated enactments of ‘community’. Participants situated themselves as members of a geographical community, of an ‘imagined’ community and of other constitutive communities. A sense of community was enacted through five interactional strategies: Affirming moral codes, ‘de…
Golden Age' versus 'Bad Old Days: A Discursive Examination of Advice Giving in Antenatal Classes
Childbirth is seen as a medical event, and pregnancy, a time when parents-to-be are in need of advice. This article provides a discursive analysis of how such advice is given in antenatal classes. Using audio-recorded data from National Childbirth Trust (NCT) antenatal classes, we analyse how class leaders talk to class members about pregnancy, childbirth and infant care. We identify a pattern of advice giving in which class leaders construct 'go…
Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race
Journal Article Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race. By Alain LeRoy Locke. Ed. by Jeffrey C. Stewart. (Washington: Howard University Press, 1992. lxviii + 114 pp. Cloth, $22.95, ISBN 0-88258-137-6. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-88258-158-9.) Get access Everett Akam Everett Akam Casper College, Casper, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art
The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature
Mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts
Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother’s Day from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected fro…
The Negro's Contribution to American Culture
Alain Locke, The Negro's Contribution to American Culture, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 8, No. 3, The Present and Future Position of the Negro in the American Social Order (Jul., 1939), pp. 521-529
Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy
Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate about a controversial refugee policy in the UK co…
Empowering women through the positive birth movement
Childbirth has been positioned as a life changing event that has profound long term psychological effects upon women. This paper adopts a community psychology approach to explore the role that the Positive Birth Movement (PBM may have in tackling negative birth experiences by supporting women before and after birth. Six women who all regularly attend UK based Positive Birth Movement meetings and had given birth to at least one child participated …
Regendering care or undoing gendered binaries of parenting in contemporary UK society
Boyer, Dermott, James and MacLeavy discuss the rise of fathers in primary caregiving positions within the United Kingdom following the recessions from 2008 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012 and outline a number of key questions. In this commentary, I consider the aims of their piece, both within contemporary parenting culture and the negotiation of gendered binaries of care. I note that a more intersectional understanding of the decisions that families ar…
Constructing Crime, Enacting Morality: Emotion, Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour in an Inner-City Community
Research into emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour has lacked psychological input and rarely considered the multi-directional associations between emotion, crime and morality. We present a study analysing audio recordings of two community groups meeting in a deprived inner-city area with high rates of crime, using conversation analytic and discursive psychological techniques to conduct an affective–textual analysis that draws out aspects of p…
Managing Agency for Athletic Performance: A Discursive Approach to the Zone
This paper provides a discursive perspective on a concept used within sport psychology, in both its academic and practical discourse, namely ‘the zone.’ This extraordinary state is one of exceptional peak performance whereby an athlete claims to perform effortlessly, automatically, and successfully. The focus of this paper is the use of the zone as a discursive resource in accounting for successful performance. Through the examination of two tele…
Gendered Emotion: Personal, Cultural or Discursive
Negro Politicians. Harold F. Gosnell
Emmett J. Scott, Negro Migration During the War
The New Negro
Carter G. Woodson, The Negro in Our History
The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature
The Dilemma of Segregation
There were two reasons justifying the separation of educational facilities for whites and Negroes during the first generation of Reconstruction. These were the facts of the Negro's rather unusual educational problem during that generation and the historical fact that these educational facilities in the South came to him through private and missionary enterprise. In the second generation, these special provisions and auspices, initially favorable …
Negro Politicians. Harold F. Gosnell
Negro Art: Past and Present
American Troubadour
The Negro's Contribution to American Culture
Alain Locke, The Negro's Contribution to American Culture, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 8, No. 3, The Present and Future Position of the Negro in the American Social Order (Jul., 1939), pp. 521-529
When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Culture Contacts
When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Culture Contacts
The Color Problem in the American Lake
Patterns of Negro Segregation. Charles S. Johnson
Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary
The Negro in the Three Americas
It seems fitting that our final consideration of the Negro in American life should be set in the broadest possible perspective, and so I propose as our final subject, The Negro in the Three Americas. Even should we discover no further common denominators-though I think we shall-there will be at least two of great contemporary concern and importance,-PanAmericanism and democracy, with both of which the general situation of the American Negro has, …
Areas of Extension and Improvement of Adult Education Among Negroes
Alain L. Locke, Areas of Extension and Improvement of Adult Education Among Negroes, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 14, No. 3, Adult Education for Negroes in the United States (Summer, 1945), pp. 453-459
Major Prophet of Democracy
Education in a Democracy
Inventory at Mid-Century: A Review of the Literature of the Negro for 1950
The Sculpture of Negro Africa
From Native Son to Invisible Man: A Review of the Literature of the Negro for 1952
The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art
Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race
Journal Article Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race. By Alain LeRoy Locke. Ed. by Jeffrey C. Stewart. (Washington: Howard University Press, 1992. lxviii + 114 pp. Cloth, $22.95, ISBN 0-88258-137-6. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-88258-158-9.) Get access Everett Akam Everett Akam Casper College, Casper, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
The New Negro (1925)
Race Contacts and Interracial Relations
Sociology (42 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Political science (17 works) · Race, History, and American Society (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Art (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social science (11 works)